[arch-general] File Associations for firefox & thunderbird :)^

[Michishige Kaito]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:

> Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 18:28:24 +0200:
>> On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 17:09:26 +0200:
>>>> I am a full time KDE user and I don't have GNOME or its libraries.
>>>> Firefox and Thunderbird keep asking me to choose applications to open
>>>> .pdf, .doc, .xls, http://, etc.
>>>> Is there no package which can fix the file associations for FF and TB ?
>>>
>>> That's likely some xdg stuff. It usually works using gnome, KDE and xfce
>>> but nothing else. KDE probably has some preferences thing somewhere,
>>> otherwise you're pretty much as f..... as everyone who doesn't use a big
>>> DE. Hurray for 'Desktop Integration'..
>>
>> I don't think so.
>> xdg-settings --list gives on default-web-browser.
>
> You can't use xdg-settings when you don't have one of the major DEs
> running, xdg-open falls back to a hardcoded array of browsers in that
> case. It's all quite awkward if you don't use gnome, kde or xfce.
> I know, doesn't really help with your problem..

I found thunderbird asking me for a program to execute for links. Pointed 
it to the right program and told it to remember. Never asked again. I 
wouldn't know where to change it if I ever wanted, but it's been working 
so far, and I don't use a DE.

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Michishige Kaito

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